Werner's Voice Magazine, Volume 17Werner's Magazine Company, 1895 - Elocution |
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... the crescent ; for the sake of a divorce , he bowed before the cross ; the orphan of St. Louis , he became the adopted child of the republic ; and with a parricidal ingratitude , on the ruins both of the throne and the tribune he reared ...
... the crescent ; for the sake of a divorce , he bowed before the cross ; the orphan of St. Louis , he became the adopted child of the republic ; and with a parricidal ingratitude , on the ruins both of the throne and the tribune he reared ...
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